Fossil specimen : SM A 34834 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Mollusca Class Gastropoda Order - |
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| Fossil Name | Phanerotrema mcoyi Longstaff |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Phanerotrema mcoyi Longstaff: Holotype Murchisonia simplex McCoy Murchisonia Murchisonia simplex McCoy: Syntype Murchisonia simplex McCoy |
| Registration No. | A 34834 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | Scotland |
|---|---|
| Locality | Mullock Quarry, Dalquorhan, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | May Hill Bed |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Rhuddanian Age (Silurian Period) – Telychian Age (Silurian Period) (440.8 – 438.5 Ma B.P.) |
| References | Longstaff 1924. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. lxxx (5): p.423 McCoy 1852 a. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils Palaeontographical Society Monographs (2): p.294, 368 pl. il fig.21 McCoy 1852 b. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (2) vol. x (1): p.192 McCoy 1854 a. Contributions to British Palaeontology (1): p.244 Salter 1873. Catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (3): p.83 Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 (4): p.107 |
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